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"On a hot summer's day in a poor suburb of Tokyo we meet three women: thirty-year-old Natsuko, her older sister Makiko, and Makiko's teenage daughter Midoriko. Makiko, an ageing hostess despairing the loss of her looks, has travelled to Tokyo in search of breast enhancement surgery. She's accompanied by Midoriko, who has recently stopped speaking, finding herself unable to deal with her own changing body and her mother's self-obsession. Her silence dominates Natsuko's rundown apartment, providing a catalyst for each woman to grapple with their own anxieties and their relationships with one another.Eight years later, we meet Natsuko again. She is now a writer and find herself on a journey back to her native city, returning to memories of that summer and her family's past as she faces her own uncertain future". [amazon‧co‧uk]
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Breasts and Eggs, Mieko Kawakami
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- Released
- 2021
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- Title
- Breasts and Eggs
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Mieko Kawakami
- Publisher
- Picador
- Released
- 2021
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 320
- ISBN10
- 1509898212
- ISBN13
- 9781509898213
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Family, Women, Contemporary Fiction, Relationships, Children, Gifts for older schoolchildren, Gifts for women, Society, Feminism, Literary Fiction, Japan, Parenthood, Writing, Japanese Literature, Family relationships, Sisters, Asian Fiction, Female Writers, Daughters, Puberty, Body, BookTok, Women's Rights, Tokyo, Single People, Single Parents, Artificial Insemination, Asexuality, Aromanticism
- First published
- 2008
- Original title
- 夏物語 (Nacumonogatari)
- Rating
- 3.85 out of 5
- Description
- "On a hot summer's day in a poor suburb of Tokyo we meet three women: thirty-year-old Natsuko, her older sister Makiko, and Makiko's teenage daughter Midoriko. Makiko, an ageing hostess despairing the loss of her looks, has travelled to Tokyo in search of breast enhancement surgery. She's accompanied by Midoriko, who has recently stopped speaking, finding herself unable to deal with her own changing body and her mother's self-obsession. Her silence dominates Natsuko's rundown apartment, providing a catalyst for each woman to grapple with their own anxieties and their relationships with one another.Eight years later, we meet Natsuko again. She is now a writer and find herself on a journey back to her native city, returning to memories of that summer and her family's past as she faces her own uncertain future". [amazon‧co‧uk]